The sciolist...

The sciolist drove me nuts until this afternoon. During the first reading before the Summer Institute started, I grew irritated at Zakes Mda for throwing such a puzzle into this book that I trying very hard to enjoy. In fact, the first time I read the first sentence, I shut the book on the whole word and gave up for several weeks. When I made my second attempt, I decided to ignore any references to the sciolist because it kept interrupting my reading. I loved everything else about the book except that damn sciolist.

That is how I felt until today, when our small group and large group discussion changed everything and now I must say this book has placed us in the middle of something absolutely brilliant